Feminist Participatory Action Research for Change– Support to Rural, Indigenous, Migrant, Urban Poor Women’s Organisations

Deadline: 19 April 2015

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development (APWLD) is currently accepting proposals from grassroots women’s rights organisations to take part in the Feminist Participatory Action Research programme that aims to develop tools and resources that support rural, indigenous, migrant and urban poor women (RIMUP) to monitor, engage and influence development policies that impact on them. APWLD will select RIMUP organisations who will lead the FPAR on human rights for women in six to eight countries in Asia Pacific and to conduct a Feminist Participatory Action Research for Change: Amplifying Voices, Strengthening Feminist Movements for Development Justice for 1 year (July 2015 – June 2016).

Focus Regions: Asia & Pacific

Program Areas

Four focus areas of the research that’s illustrative of women’s development rights are:

Access to and control over land and other resources (including income and their livelihood)
Decent work and living wage
Peace and Justice
Voice (women’s democratic participation and bodily autonomy)
Community-owned solutions and demand for development justice.
Support for selected national partners

Benefits

Selected organizations will be provided with a small grant to employ a young woman researcher and carry out the research including salary and on-costs with the approximate amount of USD 6.000 – 8,000. Research partners will need to appoint a mentor to assist this young women researcher throughout this research programme. APWLD will also support the young women researcher and their mentors to participate in at least 3 (three) capacity building workshops and provide advocacy or network opportunities throughout the year.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants can be non-governmental, non-profit, grassroots based organisations that are:

Committed towards the enjoyment and realisation of the human rights of women at community level in Asia Pacific, particularly of the most marginalised (young, rural, indigenous, migrant, Dalit women and/or women in other minority groups);
Work directly with the local grassroots women in the community level;
Committed to conducing the one-year Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) process;
Committed to feminist participatory methodologies that increase democratic participation and leadership of marginalised women in the research;
Can provide the appointed researcher with internet and computer access for regular online communication with APWLD secretariat and online training.

Selection Criteria

APWLD will consider the following when selecting the seven organisations for this project:

Sub-regional representation;
Recommendations/ references by APWLD members in their country;
Diverse human rights and development concerns of rural, indigenous, migrant and other marginalised women in Asia Pacific.

How to apply?

Interested organisations are required to submit the following via email.